Thorsten Hehn

Volkswagen Group Research

Thorsten Hehn (male) received his diploma in Electrical Engineering and his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Digital Communications from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. His PhD advisors are Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Huber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Prof. Olgica Milenkovic (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA).

As a graduate student, Hehn was a guest researcher at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, Canada. He worked with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober on Optimized Space-Time Delay-Diversity codes for MIMO communications. This work was later awarded the renowned “ITG Preis” by the German engineering association VDE. As a PhD student, he focused on information theory and modern coding schemes including turbo codes and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. He worked on short-length codes and optimized decoding algorithms based on Belief-Propagation Decoding. Also during this time, Hehn was a visiting researcher at the University of Boulder, Colorado, where he focused on error-floor problems during iterative decoding, including stopping sets and trappings sets. He has authored and co-authored many scientific papers, including publications in the renowned IEEE journal “Transactions on Information Theory”.

Hehn joined Volkswagen in 2009. From 2012 to 2014 he working with Volkswagen Group of America, USA, where he was leading the Security Group of the OEM research consortium “CAMP”. He is currently with Volkswagen Group Research in Germany and focusing on vehicle-related Device-to-Device Communications.

Abstract

Automotive Requirements for Future Mobile Networks

The next generation of mobile networks promises ultra-low latency,
ultra-high reliability, ultra-high bandwidth, the accommodation of 1000
times more users per cell, and guarantees on the quality of service. In
order to fulfill these promises, the network operator has to invest into
his network. The vertical industry is interested in use cases which
require this new type of service. We show for select use cases that the
requirements from automotive industry match with the design goals of 5G.
We will show the latency requirements for emergency trajectory planning
to avoid accidents and we will show latency requirements for
teleoperated driving. Further, we will discuss how we could offer the
operator new business cases for those requirements and how a
win-win-situation can help to justify the investments.